Population dynamics
exponential growth
Examples of this kind of limit to population growth include wildfires, water availability, severe weather (abiotic or biotic?)
Does plastic pollution in our oceans positively or negatively impact the carrying capacity of marine populations?
negatively
Does a population with lots of different species have high or low biodiversity
High biodiversity
This type of population growth describes a population that has limited resources and will level off at a carrying capacity
logistic growth
Examples of this kind of limiting factor include predation, competition, food availability, mate availability (abiotic or biotic?)
Biotic limiting factor
Invasive species increase or decrease the carrying capacity of populations an ecosystem
Decrease
These types of islands will have the least biodiversity (what size and distance from mainland)
Small and far from mainland
carrying capacity
This limit to population growth worsens with a larger population in a small area. Examples include disease, predation, competition, water availability
Density-dependent limiting factors
climate change
These types of islands will have the most biodiversity (what size and distance from mainland)
large and close to mainland
This type of distribution describes when penguins in a population evenly space out to protect their young (clumped, uniform or random)
Uniform
This limit to population growth does not get worse or better with changing population size. Examples include hurricanes, tornados, floods
Density-independent limiting factor
What human caused impact is causing sea level rise in low lying areas like Bangladesh?
Climate change
Does sustainable management of resources increase or decrease biodiversity
increases
This type of distribution would describe a field of cottonwood trees which are grown from wind dispersed seeds (clumped, uniform or random)
random
Disease is an example of an this type of limiting factor (include whether it is abiotic or biotic AND density-dependent or independent)
Biotic density dependent
What is one real life example of the tragedy of the commons?
Overfishing, water use, deforestation etc.
Are ecosystems with high biodiversity more or less stable?
more stable